Nominated Senator Miraj Abdillahi has accused Mombasa ODM leaders of incitement.

Speaking to the media on Monday at Pembe za Ndovu, Miraj accused the ODM politicians of inciting Mombasa residents against the government.

Miraj defended the government on the demolitions of houses in Changamwe.

"Chanagmwe is among the estates that were earmarked for affordable house by the former governor Hassan Joho, it is unfortunate that some politicians led by the Women representative have now decided to play politics with the issue." said Miraj.

Adding "Let us stop inciting our people and playing cheap politics. The residents were given notice earlier and some even vacated before the developer came on site. I condemn the police who used force to remove the people from the houses. As Mombasa residents, we are not going to be left behind in the affordable housing project by the government."

The government on Friday last week carried out a demolition exercise in Changamwe to pave way for the disputed affordable housing project.

The tenants say they had been asked to move into complete affordable housing units, on a deposit of Ksh50,000 and monthly rent of Ksh15,000 which they referred to as expensive.

The legislator also accused the leaders of trying to discriminate Mombasa residents on party lines.

"It is very sad to hear our speaker of the county assembly say that school bursaries should only be given to ODM delegates, shame on you Mr Speaker, this is very wrong" said Miraj.

" You cannot discriminate our Children just because of politics, they all deserve the bursaries. Imagine if President could be taking developement projects to only where there are UDA governors, what would happen." 

On Saturday, during Mombasa ODM delegates meeting, Mombasa county assembly speaker Aharub Khatri said the ODM delegates should be given priority in the issuance of bursaries.

"Let us be honest, we need to plan for our people. When issuing out bursaries and other developement projects we need to give them to our ODM members. It is very sad our people miss the bursaries because they have been issued to other parties" said Khatri.